Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.23.0

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As always, make sure to read Upgrading Alpine to a new major release when upgrading to a new release.

If you experience any issues with the upgrade, please let us know and file an issue in our repositories.

Note: We're beginning to work on the roadmap for Alpine Linux v3.23. To view the upcoming changes, see #17294.

Important changes

apk-tools v3

After 5 years of development in the master branch of apk-tools, apk v3 is now ready for Alpine v3.23.0. This should be a safe and seamless upgrade from apk v2, but might has some breaking changes if you use libapk.

Note that we will only transition the package manager to v3, but will keep the v2 index and package format. We plan to move to the v3 index and package format after Alpine v3.23.

For more information, take a look at the release notes of apk v3: TODO

linux-stable replaces linux-edge

For years, linux-lts and linux-edge grew apart and developed their own kernel configs, different architectures, etc.

Now linux-edge gets replaced with linux-stable which has the identical configuration as linux-lts, but follows the stable releases instead of the long-term releases (see https://kernel.org/).

If you had linux-edge installed, apk automatically installs linux-stable as a replacement. There is a reasonably amount of kernel config differences, if you need a config option that existed previously in linux-edge, please open a issue to add the required option to linux-lts. Also this change might involve manual boot loader configuration, as the kernel has been renamed and follows linux-lts' packaging recipe.

Significant changes

Static binaries are built as PIE

LLVM metapackage

Note: TODO

Note-worthy updates

As always, many packages were upgraded. Make sure to read the individual release notes of the projects you use.

  • BIRD TODO
  • busybox TODO
  • Deno TODO
  • GCC TODO
  • GNOME TODO
  • Go TODO
  • ISC BIND TODO
  • KDE Plasma TODO
  • Linux TODO
  • LLVM TODO
  • LXQt TODO
  • nginx TODO
  • NodeJS TODO (LTS)
  • PHP TODO
  • Qt TODO
  • Ruby TODO
  • Rust TODO
  • wlroots TODO
  • zigbee2mqtt TODO

Significant removals

binutils-gold removed

Note: TODO: not yet in edge

The gold linker got deprecated by upstream on February 2025 and in Alpine v3.23 we removed it from our repositories.

Previously this has been hold because of Go's use of the gold linker for ARM architectures, but these days the default ld linker works as expected.

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